Messerlab.org - SEO Checker

Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
80% 
Page quality
38% 
Page structure
60% 
Link structure
96% 
Server
100% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.35 s
File size
88.40 kB
Words
210
Media files
2
Number of links
16 internal / 9 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Messer Lab | Evolutionary Biology and Population Genomics
The length of the page title is perfect. (542 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Welcome to the Messer lab in the Department of Computational Biology at Cornell University. We are interested in a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology and population genetics. Over the past years, our research has centered on rapid evolutionary processes, focusing on examples that allow us to study evolution directly as it unfolds over…
The meta description is too long: 2148 pixels from max. 1000 pixels. Optimize description
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://messerlab.org/
There is a valid canonical link specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width
robotsmax-image-preview:large
generatorWordPress.com
theme-color#dadada
application-nameMesser Lab
msapplication-windowwidth=device-width;height=device-height
msapplication-tooltipEvolutionary Biology and Population Genomics
descriptionWelcome to the Messer lab in the Department of Computational Biology at Cornell University. We are interested in a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology and population genetics. Over the past years, our research has centered on rapid evolutionary processes, focusing on examples that allow us to study evolution directly as it unfolds over…
article:publisherhttps://www.facebook.com/WordPresscom
langen
twitter:text:titleMesser Lab – Home
twitter:imagehttps://messerlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cornell21.jpg?w=640
twitter:cardsummary_large_image
og:typewebsite
og:titleMesser Lab
og:descriptionEvolutionary Biology and Population Genomics
og:urlhttps://messerlab.org/
og:site_nameMesser Lab
og:imagehttps://messerlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cornell21.jpg
og:image:width1122
og:image:height412
og:image:altEmpty
og:localeen_US
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 210 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
Only 2 paragraph/s was/were found on this page.
30.5% of the text are stop words.
Words from the H1 heading are used in the page content.
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 21.57 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
2 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...tent/uploads/2014/05/cornell21.jpg?w=600No alt attribute provided
...://s0.wp.com/i/logo/wpcom-gray-white.pngNo alt attribute provided

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Messer Lab
Too many H1 headings
The H1 heading is too short (10 characters). It should be at least 20 Characters long.
Headings
(Important)
Some headings do not have any content.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Messer Lab
H1 Messer Lab – Home
H1 Archives
H1 Meta
H2 Empty heading
H2 Empty heading
H3 Share this:
H3 Leave a comment Cancel reply
H3 Empty heading
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
1 links don't have an anchor text.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 9 external links on this page.
LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://messerlab.org/Messer Lab
A-TITLE Messer Lab
https://messerlab.org/Anchor Skip to content
A-TITLE Skip to content
https://messerlab.org/Home
https://messerlab.org/people/People
/publications/Publications
https://messerlab.org/slim/SLiM Software
https://messerlab.org/resources/Resources
https://messerlab.org/teaching/Teaching
https://messerlab.org/press/Press
https://messerlab.org/jobs/Jobs
/glam-evogen/GLAM-Evogen
/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/co...No Text
/?share=twitterNew window Nofollow Twitter
A-TITLE Click to share on Twitter
/?share=facebookNew window Nofollow Facebook
A-TITLE Click to share on Facebook
https://messerlab.org/Nofollow Cancel reply
https://wordpress.com/start?re...External Register
https://messerlab.wordpress.co...External Subdomain Log in
https://wordpress.com/?ref=foo...Nofollow External Blog at WordPress.com.
https://messerlab.org/Text duplicate Messer Lab
https://messerlab.wordpress.co...External Subdomain Customize
https://wordpress.com/start/External Sign up
https://wordpress.com/log-in?r...External Text duplicate Log in
https://wp.me/P4C3x5-GExternal Copy shortlink
https://wordpress.com/abuse/?r...New window External Report this content
https://subscribe.wordpress.com/External Subdomain Manage subscriptions

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://messerlab.org/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is excellent with 0.35 seconds.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (88 kB).

HTTP Response Header

NameValue
servernginx
dateSun, 13 Oct 2024 16:11:54 GMT
content-typetext/html; charset=UTF-8
strict-transport-securitymax-age=31536000
varyAccept-Encoding
x-hackerWant root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header.
host-headerWordPress.com
x-pingbackhttps://messerlab.org/xmlrpc.php
link<https://wp.me/P4C3x5-G>; rel=shortlink
content-encodinggzip
x-ac3.vie _dca MISS
alt-svch3=":443"; ma=86400
statuscode200
http_versionHTTP/2

External factors

This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 99 referring domains.
This page has 267 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 91 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

No links from Wikipedia were found.

Robots.txt

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Sitemap: https://messerlab.org/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://messerlab.org/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-signup.php
Disallow: /press-this.php
Disallow: /remote-login.php
Disallow: /activate/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /mshots/v1/
Disallow: /next/
Disallow: /public.api/

# This file was generated on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:34:22 +0000

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messerlab.org
Messer Lab | Evolutionary Biology and Population Genomics
Welcome to the Messer lab in the Department of Computational Biology at Cornell University. We are interested in a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology and population genetics. Over the past years, our research has centered on rapid evolutionary processes, focusing on examples that allow us to study evolution directly as it unfolds over…

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Messer91%Check
Lab91%Check
Messer Lab91%Check
Log59%Check
evolutionary58%Check
Biology58%Check
evolutionary biology58%Check
population56%Check
Computational Biology52%Check
rapid evolutionary52%Check

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